• Continence Advisory Service
• Falls prevention
• Hearing loss
• Healthy ageing
• Keeping warm in winter
• Optical services
• A smile for life - mouth care
  
• Patient information about Whipps Cross University Hospital
• Discharge from hosptial
• Intermediate care
• Transitional care
• Residential care
• Deaths and bereavements
• Living with a terminal illness
• Planning for later life as a lesbian, gay man, bisexual or transgendered person
• Lesbian, gay and bisexual faith groups
• Adult protection
• Crime prevention
• Direct payments
• Helping you to get out and about
• Need help with shopping?
• Welfare Benefits

About Us

Waltham Forest Older People's Collaborative website is part of the local Older People's Information Strategy. The website is provided by Age Concern Waltham Forest in partnership with Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust and Social Services; the Waltham Forest Older People's Voluntary Sector Partnership; North East London Mental Health Trust and Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust.

The website aims to provide information for use directly by older people, their relatives and carers, and via front line staff in all the partner organisations. All the web pages are printer friendly so that they can be printed off for older people wherever there is access to a computer.

The ontents of the first phase of Waltham Forest Older People's Collaborative Website cover:

• Falls Prevention
• Welfare Benefits
• Healthy Ageing
• Moving to Residential or Nursing Care
• Discharge from Whipps Cross University Hospital
• Intermediate Care
• Transitional Care
• Deaths & Bereavements
• Keeping warm in Winter
• Living with a Terminal Illness
• Hearing Loss and Ageing
• Help with Shopping
• Planning for Later Life as Lesbian, Gay Man, Bisexual or Transgendered Person.